Prototype for the Analysis of Human Body Movement with Kinect Sensor

This article describes the development of a human motion analysis system, designed to study the gait cycle, and to catch up the information in a continuous and uninterrupted manner, in real time. So that, this system can be used by health professionals related to the diagnosis of walking problems. This device is comprised of a hardware and a software to capture, store, process and visualize the body signals. The hardware has been built using a weight platform and a Kinect sensor, to capture the information. To store the signals body, it uses a database system which collects the information of the skeleton model given by the Kinect. After that, a gait cycle model has been developed to analyze the patient walk. Finally, the results can be viewed in n interactive and graphical interface, presenting information of each body joints. This gives facilities to work with different body parts and to develop other experiments.